P. V. Narasimha Rao vs the Nehru-Gandhi Family Quotes

“In 1998, when Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was unseated by a vote of no-confidence, Sonia made an abortive bid to become prime minister. She was thwarted by Mulayam Singh Yadav who withdrew support to the Congress-led government after indicating an initial willingness to offer it.”
― Sanjaya Baru, P. V. Narasimha Rao vs the Nehru-Gandhi Family

“Those who resented Sanjay’s bossism within the party and government were sidelined. A new generation of brash, young, socially upwardly mobile wannabes including Akbar Ahmed, Gundu Rao, Rukhsana Sultana, Jagdish Tytler, Kamal Nath, Ambika Soni, Bansi Lal and so on, acquired prominence both in party and government.”
― Sanjaya Baru, P. V. Narasimha Rao vs the Nehru-Gandhi Family

“It is possible to suggest that the first step towards inherited political power came when Motilal Nehru urged Mahatma Gandhi to name his son Jawaharlal as Congress president. Motilal did that on more than one occasion and Gandhiji obliged, to the dismay of both Subhas Chandra Bose and Vallabhbhai Patel. While Bose rejected Gandhiji’s preference for Nehru, Patel was too much of a loyalist to question the Mahatma. The”
― Sanjaya Baru, P. V. Narasimha Rao vs the Nehru-Gandhi Family

“The chief minister of a Congressruled state had been reduced to an employee appointed and dismissed at the whim of an all-powerful prime minister.”
― Sanjaya Baru, P. V. Narasimha Rao vs the Nehru-Gandhi Family